Chronicles II 27:1

1 Joatham twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name Jerusa, daughter of Sadoc.

Chronicles II 27:1 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 27:1

Jotham was twenty five years old
(See Gill on 2 Kings 15:33).

Chronicles II 27:1 In-Context

1 Joatham twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name Jerusa, daughter of Sadoc.

2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Ozias did: but he went not into the temple of the Lord. And still the people corrupted themselves.

3 He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and he built much in the wall of Opel.

4 In the mountain of Juda, and in the woods, both dwelling-places and towers.

5 He fought against the king of the children of Ammon, and prevailed against him: and the children of Ammon gave him even annually a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. These the king of the children of Ammon brought to him annually in the first and second and third years.